President Uhuru Kenyatta has been warned against dismissing leaders reading 2022 succession politics in the Building Bridges Initiative (BBI).
Uhuru and Orange Democratic Movement (ODM) party leader Raila Odinga established the taskforce after their March 9 handshake for the purpose of coming up with viable reform proposals to ensure lasting peace and unity in the country.
But some politicians particularly those allied to Deputy President William Ruto have been claiming the Uhuru-Raila unity deal is a plot to block the DP in the race to the State House and ensure dynasties continue ruling.
However, speaking to journalists on Friday, the Head of State termed those linking the BBI to the next election as 'petty' insisting he will continue working with Raila as they agreed in March.
"Let those who want to chase after elections, let them do so, I'm not among them," he said.
But columnist Otieno Otieno has warned Uhuru over such an attitude saying he was risking falling out with a huge number of leaders with massive influence and command in the country.
"Someone like Deputy President William Ruto, who hasn’t concealed his reservations about Mr Kenyatta hobnobbing with Mr Odinga, has the political muscle to make their national unity project fall like the Sigiri Bridge," he wrote in his column on Saturday.
Otieno added: "Dismissing people who read 2022 politics in the Building Bridges Initiative also portrays the President as being either out of touch with reality or sly."